Gerogian
is a simple symmetrical style with gables and small eaves. It was the
fashionable style of architecture in Britain and its colonies during
the 18th and early 19th centuries. Named after the first three King
Georges (1714 1820).

It
was popular in Australia, up to the 1840s. The earliest public
building and residence architecture in NSW. Under Francis Greenway
many Georgian style public buildings were constructed out of
sandstone such as St Matthews church at Windsor (1817 20) and
Hyde Park Barracks. The style has the features of simple, classical,
and symmetrical lines. Early Georgian terraces were built with
classical simplicity in contrast to the detail and decoration of
Victorian buildings to follow.